What do you or don't you do whilst TTC

[LIG1979]

Hello,
I am ttc #2 and onto cycle 6. (It took almost a year and 2 mcs to conceive dd.) Currently at cd12 (ovulate around cd16) and had a cold all week and been necking cold drugs. What I wondered was what do you eat/drink/take etc. both pre-ovulation and post-ovulation?

As it goes on, I get stricter and stricter with myself in the hope it works but then think I shouldn't keep stopping my life for something that may not happen this month.

So far, I have cut out most caffeine (except chocolate and the odd diet-coke), limit myself to 1 alcoholic drink max in a session post ovulation most months, cut out vigorous exercise post ovulation. I try to not drink too much pre-ovulation and I drink alot less than I did pre-dd.

(DD was conceived during a month when I drank loads of alcohol and caffeine with lots of vigorous exercise after deciding to not ruin my holiday for something that wasn't going to happen.)

Didn't put this in conception as wanted the view of people who were struggling. (I am more than happy to cut out everything if it will happen in the first few cycles.)

I tried for this one (am 31 weeks) for 7 months. The month I got pregnant I had been out drinking several times and was drinking caffeine normally after several months abstaining from both.

As far as I can see and if anything made the difference that month it was having sex every single day- sometimes twice if we could manage it- to the point that that month on a 30 day cycle we had sex 43 times. As well as that I had four weekly acupuncture sessions and a Chinese doctor diagnosed me with a "damp" uterus and I took some Chinese herbs to sort that out. I am in no way convinced by the Chinese medicine angle but I can't lie and say that I wasn't doing it that month!

So my advice, such as it is, would be shag as much as you can stand and visit a Chinese medical centre.

43 times, wow. Now i feel like we never put enough effort in.
Was that a significant increase on previous months?

Yes, more than twice as much. I absolutely think that's what did it. Before we were only managing three or four times a week which was only meaning 15-20 times a month. As much as I'd love to believe in the power of Chinese medicine I honestly think it was just the volume of semen.

We then didn't have sex for about eight weeks- needed a break!!!

I am also incredibly impressed with 43 - I don't think that would even be possible for us. Well done on your pregnancy. We are trying every other day with every day from cd14 till my temp rises around cd18.

The Chinese medicine is interesting - I used acupuncture and took maca when conceiving dd. was quite cynically but it did work. Although not sure how I would fit in acupuncture sessions now but I could start on the maca again.